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Data acquired December 13, 2008 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired December 13, 2008 4096 x 4096 2 MB - JPEG
Data acquired December 13, 2008 3760 x 4448 38 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired January 2, 2009 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired January 2, 2009 4096 x 4096 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired January 2, 2009 3760 x 4448 36 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired December 13, 2008 - January 2, 2009 122 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired December 13, 2008 - January 2, 2009 JPEG
Changing weather conditions left their mark on sea ice along the Antarctic Peninsula in late 2008 and early 2009. In mid-December 2008, melt water resting on the sea ice colored it sky blue. At the beginning of 2009, however, the sea ice appeared snowy white, and cracks had begun along the ice margin.
NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott, based on image interpretation by Terry Haran and Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Published January 9, 2009 Data acquired December 13, 2008 - January 2, 2009